A British born Indian travels to India and founds out how lucky she is for living in the UK.
She also meets the father of the girl who was raped in the bus incident.
An indian woman was hurles by acid, she tells what she experienced.
Another woman tells her how she was pulled in her hair, got pulled in her clothes and no helpednher. She was lucky of not getting raped!
Various Indian women tell her how difficult it is to live as an indian woman in daily life.

This is the flag of Islam, for you cannot separate the Muslim league from Islam. Many people misunderstand us when we talk of Islam, particularly our Hindu friends. When we say this flag is the flag of Islam, they think that we are introducing religion into politics, A FACT OF WHICH WE ARE PROUD. Islam gives us a complete code. It is not only a religion, but it contains laws, philosophy and politics. It contains everything that matters to a man from morning to night. When we talk of Islam, we take it as an all embracing word.

- Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (11th January 1938)

Let us go back to our holy book, the Quran. Let us revert to the Hadeeth and the the great traditions of Islam which have everything in them for our guidance if we correctly interpret them and follow our great Holy book, the Quran.

- Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah (6th March 1946)

"It is my strong belief, that there is no ideology which is more democratic, enlightened and progressive than Islam."

NEW DELHI: An elaborate sting operation, conducted on 23 key people of the Ram Janambhoomi movement by an Indian website magazine, has claimed that the demolition of the Babri Masjid on Dec 6, 1992, was elaborately planned by various wings of the Sangh Parivar and executed with precision by trained volunteers.

It wasn’t, as it was made out, a case of mob frenzy going out of control, according to the sting.

The Bharatiya Janata Party questioned the timing of the report — three days before India goes to the polls — and urged the election commission to stop its broadcast.

The investigation, carried out by Cobrapost, claimed that by piecing together versions given by the top Ram Janambhhomi players, it is apparent that top BJP leaders like L. K. Advani and the then UP chief minister Kalyan Singh, as well as the former premier, Narasimha Rao, were aware of the planned demolition of mosque.

Posing as a would-be-author researching his book on the Ayodhya movement, Cobrapost associate editor K. Ashish travelled to Ayodhya, Faizabad, Tanda, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Mathura, Moradabad in UP, Jaipur, Aurangabad, Mumbai and Gwalior interviewing 23 of those who participated in the operation. He clandestinely recorded conversations with them.

If what they claim is true, the Ram Janambhoomi leaders and activists toiled secretly for months on a plan codenamed “Operation Janambhoomi” and executed it with military precision. Volunteers were trained, logistics painstakingly put in place and the assault on the disputed shrine launched using large surging crowds with volunteers skilled in demolishing structures embedded in it.

Not only do those interviewed spell out details of the planning, they also allegedly reveal how enthusiastic young participants were deliberately used as cannon fodder by provoking a police firing on volunteers in 1990 because of the belief of some leaders that the movement would not gather steam unless “some Hindus die”.

Many of those interviewed by the make-believe author are accused in CBI cases pertaining to the demolition. Yet, they seemed to have no qualms in "confessing" (or boasting) about their role in the episode that left a deep communal schism in India.

Those recruited for training were not told about their mission till a month before the demolition.

Bajrang Dal conducted a month-long training in Gujarat June 1992 for 38 of its cadre from different regions.

In subsequent drills the volunteers learnt skills such as climbing tall structures using grappling hooks and ropes. At a top-secret meeting in a basement, top VHP office-bearers asked this band of 38 to form a force to tear down the disputed structure.

While the VHP and Bajrang Dal were holding a secret meeting at Ayodhya to plan the Babri assault, Sena leaders too were deliberating on the fate of the shrine in New Delhi. If everything failed, Sena had a plan B: dynamite Babri, the Cobrapost alleged.

—By arrangement with the Times of India

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According to a report in The Times of India, Togadia on Saturday targeted Muslims buying properties in Hindu areas. He later joined a street protest outside a house bought by a Muslim businessman near Meghani Circle.

In the politically charged atmosphere where the issues of communalism and hate speeches have triggered a big debate, the leader of saffron outfit VHP also reportedly gave a 48-hour ultimatum to the businessman and directed a gathering to attack the house if he did not "relent".

Indian police are interrogating students and security personnel in relation to a violent attack on Ali Hasan Raza — a Pakistani student at Pondicherry University, according to Indian media.

Cases have also been registered under various Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections including 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) and 448 (punishment for house trespass), according to police.

According to some reports, police believe the attack may have been the result of mistaken identity.

"We suspect that the attackers might have mistaken him for someone," investigating officer and sub-inspector V Sivakumar said.

The police said most students had vacated the hostel as their exams were over. They however added that the attack was likely carried out by those who stayed on in the hostel.

The attack

On Tuesday, Raza was assaulted by three unidentified men in his room at the Sir CV Raman Hostel.

The group of men reportedly crept up on him while he was sleeping and then beat him with iron rods and liquor bottles. Raza sustained injuries on his head, neck and back.

The 24-year-old was severely wounded and is being treated at the Puducherry Institute of Medical Science (PIMS) and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer). During treatment, Raza said the attackers were his age and may be students of the university.

Raza was doing a post-graduate course in South Asian studies. He is the first and only Pakistani student in Pondicherry University.

In response to the attack, the Student Federation of India (SFI) secretary voiced concern over the incident and said the university must take all measures to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice. The university also issued new restrictions on entries to the boys hostel.

The UNMogip was set up under the Karachi agreement in 1949 after the first war between the two countries. — File photo by Reuters

NEW DELHI: India has asked a United Nations Military Observer Group on Kashmir to vacate a government-provided bungalow in New Delhi, in a toughening stance against a mission that Indians have long opposed.

The Indian foreign ministry said on Tuesday the government had asked UN Military Observers Group on India and Pakistan (UNMogip) to hand over the Delhi premises from where it was running a liaison office for more than four decades for free as part of efforts to rationalise the mission's presence in India.

The small UN mission has its main offices in the capital of India-held Kashmir, Srinagar on the Indian side and in the Pakistani capital Islamabad as part of a UN Security Council resolution to supervise the ceasefire in the divided region.

New Delhi considers the whole of disputed Kashmir as an integral part of the country and has bristled against external involvement in the region including the UNMogip that was set up under the Karachi agreement in 1949 after the first war between the two countries.

The UN Security Council resolutions recognise Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory until the will of the people of Jammu and Kashmir is determined through a plebiscite under the United Nations auspices.

Pakistan has maintained its demand for the implementation on the plebiscite resolution, which according to the country’s Permanent Representative in the United Nations, Masood Khan, remains held up from the Indian side..

New Delhi has argued that the UN had little role to play after India and Pakistan signed the Simla Pact in 1972 under which the two countries agreed to resolve all disputes including Kashmir bilaterally.

Pakistan, however, has frequently called for third-party involvement to settle the dispute in Kashmir.

“We have said that as far as we are concerned the UNMogip has outlived its relevance. This is a consistent stance that we have articulated on several occasions,” Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told reporters after the Indian Express reported the notice given to the UN group to leave the Delhi premises.

UNMogip said it had received the request in May when India was in the midst of an election that the right wing Bharatiya Janata Party led by Narendra Modi eventually won.

No reasons were given for vacating the office, Major Nicolas Diaz, in charge of the Delhi office, said.

He said the observers group would continue to operate in line with the UN mandate and that it was looking at alternative accommodation.

The military authorities of Pakistan have continued to lodge complaints with UNMogip about ceasefire violations in Kashmir.

The military authorities of India have lodged no complaints since January 1972 and have restricted the activities of the UN observers on the Indian side of the Line of Control.

They have, however, continued to provide accommodation, transport and other facilities to the observers.

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